September 2017 New Music Releases

The list of September 2017 new music releases is marked by one heartfelt goodbye and the long-awaited returns of a few huge stars.

Gregg Allman's posthumous Southern Blood, recorded during the period leading up to his death earlier this year, became something of a homecoming. The Don Was-produced sessions found Allman returning with his touring band to Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Ala. Elsewhere, Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian and Joe Bonamassa are back with a Black Country Communion reunion for BCCIV.

Michael McDonald ends a lengthy drought for new music. Wide Open is his first full-length effort since 2008's Soul Speak and his first new material since the 2013 EP Unfinished Business, a collaboration with guitarist Robben Ford. By contrast, Van Morrison's 37th studio album, Roll With the Punches, arrives roughly a year after his most recent album, Keep Me Singing.

Among reissues, Ace Frehley is offering a newly expanded deluxe edition of his 2009 album Anomaly, while Alice Cooper's 1976 concert movie Welcome to My Nightmare has been updated for a special edition that also includes the 1975 TV special Alice Cooper: The Nightmare.

More information on these and other classic-rock releases can be found below. And remember to look at our updated list of 2017 New Music Releases for details on music issued throughout the year.